German Masters 2011 (the qualifiers) - Day 3

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Ramona Dragomir
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The youngsters are taking over snooker

The penultimate day of this
year's German Masters qualifying rounds was a very intense one. No wonder,
since tomorrow is the last day and all the remaining competitors are eager for
a trip in Berlin
at the beginning of the next year.I think the majority of you
read somewhere or heard someone say that "The youngsters are the
future". Tell you what: with youngsters like Sam Craigie or Michael White,
the future of snooker is surely safe.After hammering Jack
Lisowksi the other day in the first round, Sam managed to beat David Grace 5-2
and book himself a place in the third round where he's meeting the one and only
Ken Doherty. What a thrill for the 17 year-old lad.But Michael has also kicked
some ass. Yes, sir! The Welsh boy that has only 20 years in his bag obtained a
brilliant 5-2 victory over China's
Xiao Guodong in order to set a snooker meeting with Mark Davis. Now, Mark is a
Pink soldier as Michael, but what's even more interesting is that these two
players met during the last round of the UK Championship qualifiers a couple of
weeks ago. Back then, Mark won 6-2. Will the history repeat itself?The legendary Jimmy White
has kept his good form and his efforts have been fully repaid with yet another
victory. This time, his victim was Stuart Carrington, whom Jimmy beat 5-3. Now
he's facing a very dear old friend of the baize with a totally different style
than his: Peter Ebdon.

Clash is the name of the game

While Jimmy Robertson got
whitewashed 5-0 by Adrian Gunnell, Alfie Burden lost 5-2 to Yu Delu, Adam
Wicheard experienced the cruel crash imposed by Mike Dunn and Andrew Pagget
lost a very close fight, 5-4 with the Thai James Wattana, the rest of the Pink
Army proud members have kept on marching on.So, Robert Milkins hammered
5-1 the one and only Steve Davis now having to take on a pink colleague Joe
Perry, Andy Hicks ended Alan McManus German dream with a 5-4 scoreline to meet
also a pink comrade Barry Hawkins, while Jamie Jones beat Ben Woollaston (the
PTC 3 winner) 5-2 to book himself a snooker encounter with Andrew Higginson
(the PTC 5 winner). It just keeps on getting better and better.China's Liu Chuang took down his fellow-country Liang Wenbo 5-3, while Scotland's Anthony McGill obtained a very hard
fought victory of 5-4 over England's
Adam Duffy to face the Welshman Ryan Day in tomorrow’s last round. Is snooker a
great sport or what? All nations in one place.Below you can check Day 3
list of results:10am